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First LNG-Fueled Hydraulic Fracturing Completed in Eagle Ford Play
Rig Zone ^ | December 11, 2012 | Karen Boman

Posted on 12/12/2012 6:53:16 AM PST by thackney

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To: Fightin Whitey

I have a hunch that is going to change.


21 posted on 12/12/2012 8:47:24 AM PST by sarasota
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To: sarasota

What are your thoughts?


22 posted on 12/12/2012 8:50:49 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: sarasota
Infrastructure for LNG refueling is an issue. Currently conversions to LNG for vehicles are being done mostly to fleets that operate locally (waste management trucks for example).

Recently Ford entered into an agreement with WPRT to convert to LNG usage for their F450, F550 trucks. Many intercity buses will soon be converted to LNG. LNG is cheaper and only has about 1/2 of the emissions of diesel/gas.

As refueling infrastructure grows so should the stock.

23 posted on 12/12/2012 8:53:30 AM PST by TruthWillWin (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples money.)
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To: Fightin Whitey

Just testing the waters with some research and have been getting google alerts which indicate that oil shale is on the horizon as the Next Big Thing. Some even speculate that this industry will make Obama look like the hand that moved this along, creating jobs and grabbing expired leases to have government control. I’m just trying to put the pieces of a larger puzzle together but this industry could lead to major oil production and give the US a power position as the leader in oil production. (Or is this someone’s “dream sequence”?) Fascinating stuff, at any rate.


24 posted on 12/12/2012 8:54:44 AM PST by sarasota
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To: Fightin Whitey
Lots of federal land in the Bakken area

There is lots of private land. That is why the drilling and production have been so successful.

First 60 - 90 Day Average Bakken Horizontal Production by Well {Map}
https://www.dmr.nd.gov/ndgs/Publication_List/pdf/GEO.INV/GI_149_36_Sept2012_FinalWeb.pdf

25 posted on 12/12/2012 9:03:22 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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Yes, I’m aware. My home and my business are there.

I’m just saying the feds don’t any much if anything to do with it, except to cause uncertainty.


26 posted on 12/12/2012 9:10:18 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: Fightin Whitey

What happens if Obama decides that the EPA need to be involved? How much traction could they have in pushing this along—or in trying to manage it. ??


27 posted on 12/12/2012 9:28:54 AM PST by sarasota
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The EPA is involved, casting its shadow all the time, every day.

That’s why there’s no activity on federal grounds, because the EPA is baselessly suspicious of the fracking process and is bowing to environmental outcry over allowing it on public grounds.

So far the test cases (the one I know of personally was in Wyoming) have shown fracking to be inconsequential in terms of groundwater, etc.

Still everybody is fearful what might happen in the marxist’s second act.


28 posted on 12/12/2012 9:38:04 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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I don’t believe they will try to stop it; they will make sure they CONTROL it. Too lucrative, too much export potential (eventually).


29 posted on 12/12/2012 9:43:08 AM PST by sarasota
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